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Grolier Club
Founded in New York in 1884, this storied club has long championed the art, history, and craft of books. It brings together collectors, scholars, and curious readers through exhibitions, lectures, and a remarkable library devoted to the book arts.
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The Grolier Club is not an individual author but a celebrated New York institution devoted to books and works on paper. Established in January 1884, it is widely described as the oldest existing bibliophilic club in North America and was created to encourage the study, collecting, and appreciation of books and the graphic arts.
Named for the French Renaissance collector Jean Grolier, the club has played a major role in treating books as objects of art as well as reading. Over its long history, it has organized hundreds of exhibitions and built a respected research library focused on bibliography, printing, binding, illustration, and the wider history of the book.
Today, the Grolier Club is known both as a private society and as a public-facing cultural center, with exhibitions, lectures, and publications that invite a broader audience into the world of rare books and book history. For listeners and readers interested in how books are made, collected, and preserved, it represents a rich and enduring part of literary culture.